Well, Cindy already posted about how I got her 
into cels, (Oh sure, it's always easy blame the 
big goofy guy)way back when. I'm curious how 
everyone here got into collecting.

 I got my first cels back in '86 or so, from a 
nice old lady in Atlanta who ran a cel business 
out of her home. I used to see her at various 
mall antique shows and later at cons, selling all 
sorts of American tv and movie cels. I think my 
first was a pretty elf princess from the old 
Bakshi movie Wizards. Followed that with a couple 
of good animated Star Trek cels, and even some 
from the old Animated Lord of the Rings. 

 Later when I got into anime, I discovered she 
had a small handful she'd picked up, but didn't 
know much about, so I was ale to pick them up 
cheap. I think the Kei (from The Nolandia 
Affair)  below was probably my first anime cel. 
Don't even remember what I paid for it 
unfortunately. I think until the Maho Tsukai Tai 
cel I posted in my intro, my most expensive cel 
was a cute group shot of the girls w/ photocopied 
background from The Chipmunk Adventure. ^-^;

 Not sure what's happened to the nice cel lady 
since. She's probably sadly passed away by now 
since she was in her 60's back in '89 and smoked 
like a chimney. :(

                 ---PHIL